Sentence examples for on Kinmen from inspiring English sources
China will dump all its cheap goods on Kinmen".
The number of soldiers on Kinmen has dropped to just several thousand.
"The people on Kinmen have to very quickly adjust to the conversion of their former enemy into their economic lifeline".
But they hardly glanced at the little island as they shuttled to and fro.Life on Kinmen has continued in its traditional sleepy way.
If they set foot on Kinmen, however, they are in danger from poorly marked minefields if they stray off the roads, as your correspondent discovered after walking through one by mistake.Since 2002, mainland tourists have been allowed to visit Taiwan proper, but Taiwan allows them in only if they arrive via a third country for which they have a visa.
The signing is expected soon after a meeting on Kinmen on May 23rd between ministers from China and Taiwan, the first such encounter on the islands since the KMT's flight from Mao.When Taiwan's parliament approved the budget for the pipeline in January, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which supports independence, made surprisingly few objections.
The tanks are gone, but today the lake is a migratory bird habitat, and the daily sight of black cormorants coming to rest on the waters in the late evening has become one of Kinmen's iconic images. .
With some skepticism, Anspach relates a long history of the rifle, gleaned from an 1864 local newspaper story on Kinman, of a renegade Kentucky sniper shooting the British general while carrying on a conversation with American General Andrew Jackson.
The effort was called The Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art and held on the island of Kinmen, a part of Taiwan that was under military rule until 1992.
"GIVE back our rivers and mountains," says a slogan inside a military base on the tip of Kinmen (also known as Quemoy), a tiny island controlled by Taiwan but shrouded by the same polluted haze that envelops Xiamen, a port city on the communist-controlled Chinese mainland.
Though it may sound like the plot of a porno or some shitty, post-Superbad teen comedy, the movie is in competition at festivals and more to the point the Taiwanese army really did create a military-run network of brothels on the island of Kinmen, and I went there. .
